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Brazil's GHG emissions fall 39% since 2005, now 10% below 1990 levels
2013-06-06 14:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Brazils greenhouse-gas emissions dropped 39 percent between 2005 and 2010, largely due to a reduction in deforestation, reports an inventory released yesterday by the Brazilian government. More than three-quarters of the 1.25 billion ton reduction in carbon dioxide emissions came from a drop on forest loss in the Amazon rainforest and surrounding cerrado ecosystem. Deforestation in Brazil has fallen sharply since the first half of last decade when the government rolled out a plan to control Amazon...
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